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People are forgetting the deeper issue with Ola employee, K Aravind's suicide,

Bhavish Aggarwal said in his interview with Shradha Sharma, YourStory Media

Nuances are important. These employees aren’t doing worker-level repetitive jobs, so they can work more hours with flexibility.

It means Bhavish Aggarwal understands labour laws very well.

Worker: Someone who does repetitive jobs like a component of a machine, according to the Factory Act of 1949, defined by Dr. Ambedkar.

In the tertiary sector of corporate India, we have blurred the lines between worker and manager, technician and engineer, because physically everyone looks almost similar, which means there is no well-defined concept of a “worker” equivalent.

This lack of a well-defined definition not only exploits employees doing worker level jobs but is also harmful for new entrepreneurs or small- to mid-scale businesses, because it won’t let them find truly skilled employees, as title inflation makes it harder to identify the right people.

Bhavish can make people overwork legally by paying extra money or by defining unrealistic KPIs and deadlines, without caring about the mental health of employees.

Bhavish is not a fool. He hasn’t done anything very illegal from a legal perspective, but it is obviously unethical.

Bhavish and other Ola people will get out of it on the basis of technicalities, they don’t need to pay bribes for that.

People will be outraged for a few days and then they will go silent, but the real questions will remain unasked.

Q. Why aren’t labour laws properly designed for the tertiary sector, where workers, managers, engineers, and technicians aren't clearly defined especially in corporate IT and new-age startups (post–Series A) in India?

Q. Why do no labour unions exist for corporate India or service-sector employees in new-age startups ?

Q. Why does no one in urban India bother to read about Dr. Ambedkar, who addressed this problem through the concept of a “worker” in the Factory Act of 1949? I rarely see the concept of “worker” discussed in online or offline debates.

PS:

I explained "Why" about the problem and it's solution in my previous post https://lnkd.in/gVv_Pyg7

This colonialism is one of the main reason behind forced retirement at 40s, favouritism in promotions, toxic work culture, extra work hours with no pay and weak labour laws, lack of transparency which makes connections and referral >> skills and talents which ultimately leads to "class", "caste" "gender" and "religion" based biases. It's the same Colonialism which drains the wealth and brain of India.

Because the economy of Urban India is highly dependent upon the corporate IT, Indian startups also follows the similar rules and this is the reason Why Gig work for Zomato , Zepto , Blinkit etc becomes legal and situation becomes horrible due to massive immigration by Aam Aadmi Party freebie politics later copied by others.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Inability to define the concept of a worker is the real problem of Indian IT or startups or anything in tertiary sector.

A worker is someone who performs repeatable tasks within the given constraints of a system, and by doing those repeatable tasks, does not achieve any future growth. The state must protect such workers by fixing the number of working hours and providing additional benefits. That kind of worker is not actually a human in the functional sense, but essentially a component of a machine.

Expecting more work or harder work in such jobs amounts to exploitation.

By blurring job roles or by inflation of job titles, we have created a crisis of work–life balance in corporate India.

This concept was introduced by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in the Factory Act of 1948. Western countries applied and evolved this principle for IT roles, which is why they outsourced such low-quality, repetitive jobs to India and other parts of South Asia because they haven't evolved worker equivalent concept for IT jobs and it is true for other tertiary sector job roles also.
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Bhavesh is a THIRD RATE greedy man. Forget the legalities- People and the Society - should give this man the treatment he deserves!!
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You have rightly identified the problem Yash Pratap .

Now we need to solve this. We had better old tax regime which they're trying to get rid off, as it's beneficial for us in the long run due to inflation corrected deductions.

Similarly in case of labour laws, we have laws from the industrial era while we have passed the technology era, information era and now moving to AI era. However, the laws are not changed as it doesn't benefit them.

I had also written how constructive dismissal is done so that they don't have to pay severance and it's not covered by law in India. It's not covered under labour law unless there is an actual change in terms of employment. We should have labour ministers who have actually worked in corporates who are ready to bring changes.

I am sure changes will happen as people have started talking about this. Vote of thanks to the current government also who used to advertise taxes collected as an achievement which made people think in terms of what return they're getting on the high taxes they pay 😅.

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The first companies to form were in the manufacturing sector and management principles were created for the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing processes and procedures were clearly defined and the role of managers was to maximize output. The same management principles were incorporated into every other industry. The root cause of the problem is, employees are no longer semi-skilled or unskilled and managers need not/should not drive employees to get more work done. This is what companies need to understand and incorporate into how they manage their employees.
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1st of there is no teeth in the employment law. The officiers themselves are not aware of corp realities and ask the employees to go to civil court for disputes. In India its common for employers to sack employes wo any notice. Delaying salary, not paying PF are all way to common. These are all illegal and even this goes on at corps, so we can't expect any moral policing with them.
There is no enforcement of law. Not only this insider trading, fraud and scams are also so common. That investors, propriters go scott fre even when the fraud comes to light. Things continue as usual we have lot of egs be it PayTm, ByJus, Ashneer Grover, Rahul Yadav, BlueSmart. These are the ones that were caught, but there are numerous others that continue to perpetrate fraud and its just fine.
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Yes I read your critique on work life balance and how we continue the British Raj way of working. Problem is that we have plenty of people. But quality is inconsistent, so WITCH hires folks same as factory workers. Monitoring them, making them work long hrs to get productivity. While reality is that good talent doesn't want to be in this setup and they find work culture much better in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NRAtKD6cDA&pp=ygURUmVhbFRhbGtzMSA3MCBocnM%3D

Hard work or smart work? What is the key to success? Should you spend 70hrs a week per Infy NRM?

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